about your endless
sorenesses or the bat resting in the breezeway
for four limp days) needed fixed,

because that’s always how I tell.

Even when you’re mad you sing and play.
But you haven’t sung so much now

it’s left its felt of cosmic quiet
roaring over the interior
of our first dedication.

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Jeremy Casabella teaches English and writes poetry, short stories, and pwoermds in Bakersfield, California. His most recent poems appear in The Invisible Bear, Eclipse, Shot Glass, Route 7, The Ekphrastic Review, Vinyl, and The American Journal of Poetry. His pwoermding is featured in the anthology The Wisdoms of the Universes in a Single String of Letters from Xexoxial Editions.